A National Competence Center is the reference and single point of contact and coordination on a national level for HPC. Its missions are to analyse, implement and coordinate all necessary activities and offer services to end users to cover their needs: from access to resources and technological consultancy to the provision of training courses for academia, public administrations and industry.
The aim is to bring together the necessary expertise to set up a cross-European network of NCCs in HPC-related topics with 31 participating members and associated states and to provide a broad service portfolio tailored to the respective national needs of academia, public administrations and industry. Each NCC has a presentation page with their skills and contact information.
EuroCC@Greece is one of the 33 HPC Competence Centres, built in the framework of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
EuroCC@Greece HPC Services were defined based on four key elements:
- The Greek HPC needs analysis
- The types of HPC users
- The expertise of EuroCC@Greece consortium
- The tools that EuroCC offers as a project
The table below, presents the services designed and planned to be offered by EuroCC@Greece.
| HPC4U services | Description |
| Code4HPC | High-level support in optimizing HPC, ML, and AI code development for enhanced performance and scalability |
| Train4HPC | The training service is comprised of four different products to fit the needs of all HPC Greek users. 1. Perform training academy events online or physically, customized for Academia, Industry, Public Sector, Familiarity level, and Sector. 2. Offering a standard video tutorial material 3. Offering a Greek Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with a training certificate 4. Offering HPC Industrial Internships |
| Access2HPC | Consultation on how to successfully gain access to national or EU HPC infrastructure |
| Experts4HPC | 1. Providing visibility to HPC experts via the Greek HPC experts registry 2. Providing access to a registry of Greek HPC Experts to accommodate the need of academia and industry to be linked with an expert |
| Maturity4HPC | Assessment of the potential and the readiness of an SME to adopt HPC and/or related technologies. Offers insights into whether and how the organization can benefit by supercomputing and related technologies |
The overall objective of the Greek National Competence Center is to enable the efficient uptake of HPC technologies
with the 3-fold goal to:
i) advance competitiveness in research
ii) improve effectiveness of government services and
iii) promote innovation in industry.
In order to achieve this goal, the NCC will address the issues of training and skills development, technology transfer, collaboration with Industry, competence mapping and awareness raising, in the fields of High Performance Computing, High Performance Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.
Consortium
The Greek National Competence Center “EuroCC@Greece”, is run by a consortium of 5 institutions, namely
- GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (coordinator),
- National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”,
- Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH),
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of NTUA
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The project has received funding from the European High-Performance computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732 and the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology.
